The Ghent Playhouse is excited to announce a new collaboration with Sand Lake Center for the Arts: Let’s Play!: The Ghent Playhouse and Sand Lake Center for the Arts One-Act Play Festival. This joint venture brings together two community arts organizations to celebrate local creativity, encourage new talent, and provide an opportunity for people throughout the surrounding communities to experience the excitement of live theater.
The festival will take place April 23–25 at Sand Lake Center for the Arts and April 30–May 2 at the Ghent Playhouse. We invite anyone interested in being part of this exciting undertaking to get involved—as a playwright, director, or actor. No previous theater experience is necessary, just an interest in exploring your creativity and being part of the fun! Additional information on how to participate and submit your work is provided below.
SUBMIT YOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS
The Ghent Playhouse has entered the chat! Submit your work to Let’s Play: The Ghent Playhouse & Sand Lake Center for the Art’s One-Act Play Festival, which goes up in April 2027! This year, we’re looking for unpublished one-act comedies with up to five characters and up to a 15-minute run time. Help us create a festival of laughter!
Playwrights from the Capital District and Berkshire County are eligible to submit up to two new works that have not been previously staged. No AI-generated submissions. Plays must have minimal tech requirements, including for set, props, lights and sound. Our intention is for plays to be production-ready. However, playwrights who submit their work agree to be available to participate in script development and revision if needed.
Please submit an email with two PDFs to slca.general@slca-ctp.org by Dec. 18, 2026.
The first PDF should include:
· Title of play
· Name, address, phone number and email address of playwright
· Two- to three-sentence synopsis
· List of characters with age/gender/other requirements, if any
· Set requirements
· The script in common playwriting format with pages numbered
The second PDF should include all of the above WITHOUT playwright info.
Performances will be April 23–25 at Sand Lake Center for the Arts and April 30 through May 2 at The Ghent Playhouse. If you have questions, please email producer Sue Frost at sue3frost@gmail.com.